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Scala for Machine Learning, Second Edition

You're reading from   Scala for Machine Learning, Second Edition Build systems for data processing, machine learning, and deep learning

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787122383
Length 740 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Patrick R. Nicolas Patrick R. Nicolas
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started FREE CHAPTER 2. Data Pipelines 3. Data Preprocessing 4. Unsupervised Learning 5. Dimension Reduction 6. Naïve Bayes Classifiers 7. Sequential Data Models 8. Monte Carlo Inference 9. Regression and Regularization 10. Multilayer Perceptron 11. Deep Learning 12. Kernel Models and SVM 13. Evolutionary Computing 14. Multiarmed Bandits 15. Reinforcement Learning 16. Parallelism in Scala and Akka 17. Apache Spark MLlib A. Basic Concepts B. References Index

Scalability with Actors

Traditional multithreaded applications rely on accessing data located in shared memory. The mechanism relies on synchronization monitors such as locks, mutexes, or semaphores to avoid deadlocks and inconsistent mutable states. Even for the most experienced software engineer, debugging multithreaded applications is not a simple endeavor.

The second problem with shared memory threads in Java is the high computation overhead caused by continuous context switches. Context switching consists of saving the current stack frame delimited by the base and stack pointers into the heap memory and loading another stack frame.

These restrictions and complexities can be avoided by using a concurrency model that relies on the following key principles:

  • Immutable data structures
  • Asynchronous communication

The Actor model

The Actor model, originally introduced in the Erlang programming language, addresses these issues [16:3]. The purpose of using the Actor model is two-fold:

  • It distributes...
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